User:PeopleDon'tDanceNoMore/homonyms

Confusing artist names

Not infrequently, there can be two artists or groups whose names may be different in their original - usually Japanese - script, but when read, those names will sound exactly the same (and hence be transcribed exactly the same). Some of those cases are not solvable for our tag system, and one tag must simply refer to more than one distinct entity. However, there are some cases where these creators can be differentiated. The following section lists such cases and how those creators are distinguished.

Generally, there are two ways creators may be differentiated despite having homophonous names.

• One creator may give a nuanced romanization of their name, which differs from a basic transcription. For example, there are two circles, ゆめざくら and 夢桜, whose names are both read 'yumezakura'; however, the former group romanizes (writes in the Roman alphabet) their name "yume-zakura", while the latter romanizes their name "yumezakura". This allows us to apply distinct tags to each group.
• One creator may also have another, unique alias. For example, there are many artists tagged "kuro". One of them, くろ, previously used the alias "Chloe". This means we can prefer the former alias and tag that author's works with "chloe" instead of "kuro" so as to distinguish at least one of the "kuro"s from the others.

List

a:kuro

Refers to several authors whose names read 'kuro'.

• May also refer to a:chloe, the preferred alias for the artist currently going by くろ (read 'kuro').

a:u

Can refer to two artists...

• う (read 'u')
• 憂/"u" (read 'yuu')
  • radu is a former and unique alias for this artist

g:yumezakura

Refers to 夢桜.

• May also refer to g:yume-zakura (ゆめざくら).

a:yuu

Refers to several artists whose names read 'yuu'.

• May also refer to 憂/"u" (read 'yuu'), who has a unique former alias, a:radu.
• May also refer to a:kawajita, the preferred alias for the artist currently going by "you".